English Explanatory Dictionary

Antrobus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6479).
  2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Word forms

Antrobus Antrobuses

Etymology

Apparently from either: * "within the woods", from the Norman French Entre-bois. (Eliding the last consonant verbally is only a latter-day variation in French originating in Paris.) * the Old Norse personal name Eindriði + buski (“bush, thicket”).

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